Humanities Unit Assessment

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Today we reviewed the events of the Seven Years War and discussed what happened when Britain took control of New France. Our new material was focused on the Royal Proclamation and how it's goal was to attract anglophones and assimilate the French and also on the Quebec Act that followed and was more accommodating for the French. 

ALL GRADE 7'S WILL HAVE A UNIT ASSESSMENT ON NEW FRANCE THIS THURSDAY IN CLASS. 

Students are encouraged to prepare notes to bring to class on Thursday to help them complete this assessment. They must choose 3 questions to answer. The assessment questions for students to choose from are below:

As a teacher of history, our goal is to help students become historians and that means helping them think about history in the same way actual historians do. Using thinking strategies, research information to help you respond to these questions that show a deep understanding of New France, and the role it played in the establishment of present-day Canada. Thinking is just the tip of the iceberg.  Once you have compiled your thoughts, you will then communicate your thoughts through effective and powerful writing.  Your answers must be written in paragraph format (topic sentence, details to support ideas and a concluding sentence).  You must answer 3 of the following questions.

Establish Historical Significance

Some events in history were HUGE, while others weren’t.

Question # 1:  Can you think of one MAJOR event that transpired during the time of New France that was majorly significant to its demise?

Question # 2:  Can you think of one relatively MINOR event/detail that actually packed a pretty powerful historical punch?

Use Primary Sources of Evidence

The “litter” of history (letters, documents, records)

Question #3:  Explain what primary source of information you learned about that you feel is an amazing source of information for anyone wanting to learn about what happened during the time of New France.  What makes it so historically rich and relevant?

Identify Continuity and Change

History is NOT a simple list of events.  History is a complex mix of continuity and change.

Question #4: When you consider the history of Canada, particularly the New France era, what do you see in our world today that is a continuation of that historical period?

Question #5: What do you see as a major change between then and now?

Analyze Cause and Consequence

When investigating history we start with the “how” and “why”.  We try to identify and understand the actions, beliefs, and circumstances that led to those consequences.

Question #6:  What do you feel was the major cause of New France’s defeat?  Provide justification for your opinion.

Taking Historical Perspectives

The past is a “foreign country” and thus difficult to understand.  We strive to understand the social, cultural, intellectual, and emotional settings that shaped the way people lived.

Question #7: What would you say to some who said, “If the British didn’t win the Battle on the Plains of Abraham, we’d be speaking French right now?”

Understand Ethical Dimensions

It starts with understanding the ethical differences between what we believe now and what was believed then.  Historians attempt to hold back on explicit ethical judgements, but there is still an element of judgement involved.

Question #8:  If the rise and fall of New France was a story you read in a book, which part(s) would have you the most upset? Why?

Humanities

We have all been working on learning about British Conquest of North America. This week we have reviewed the Acadian Deportation and the Seven Year's War. We talked about the battle on the plains of Abraham as a crucial battle in this war that decided who would control North America.

701 - Homework due this Thursday --> booklet questions #8-15

Science Stations

In science class we are currently working our way through a 4 day Measuring Temperature Stations activity.  These stations need to be fully completed by March 18.  To ensure students don't leave too much work right until the very end they are strongly encouraged to finish the station they were working on that day as homework if it was not completed in class.

March 11, 2015--Math

Please sign and return the math test on fractions.

March 10 Homework

Math

Students in 7-1 need to complete pages 242 #5-8 for homework.

Science 

All students need to complete the good copy of their particle analogy.

Make up your own analogy to show that you understand the difference between particles of a substance which is solid or liquid or gas.  Come up with your own analogy and make a picture, diagram, or image of some sort to accompany each of the three descriptions.  Do your work on an unlined piece of paper, be neat and use colour. 

Example

Particles of a substance in the solid state are like students sitting in their desks, they can move around a bit in their seat but not stand up and move to a different place in the room.  The amount of space they take up in the room is fixed.

Particles of a substance in the liquid state are like students sitting on the floor, they can slide around a bit on their bums but are still pretty close to each other and don’t move too fast.

Particles of a substance in the solid state are like students walking around the room, they move quickly and can create large spaces between them.  The student will spread out to fill up the whole room  

Humanities

This week we started to look at the competition between the British and French that was fueled by the Fur Trade in North America. We will start to look at how Britain was able to take control of much of North America and how this affected the many other groups in North America at the time (French, Acadian, Metis, First Nations).

We will also be starting a short story unit next week with a focus on story elements (plot, main idea, characters, conflict...)

Humanities

READING LOGS: 
Students have been asked to read 2 hours a week at home for the last 4 weeks. Each time they read they were required to summarize what they read and have a parent sign their reading log. On Monday, March 2nd, reading logs, plus 6 questions pertaining to their novel, were due for assessment. 
Many students have not completed or submitted this work! Monday, March 9th will be the only extension date for this task. 

Any student who has not submitted this assignment next Monday, will be asked to stay after school each afternoon until it has been completed and submitted.


FIELD TRIP FORMS:
On Wednesday, March 18th all grade 7's are heading to Drumheller to the Tyrell Museum. Please return field trip forms and and fees by this Friday, March 6th.

March 3

Reminder: 
- Reading Logs for the month of February are now DUE! Please finish up the summaries and questions and submit them!

- Plant Project journals are due as well! Please submit those!



Today in class, students worked on learning how to discover main idea when reading today. They started to listen to a story from an Aboriginal boys perspective during the Fur Trade and they picked out the main points of each section to draw. We will continue this tomorrow. 

Math
Tonight student's have a chapter review for homework.  The review can be found on pages 222 and 223 of the MathLinks 7 textbook.  Tomorrow there will be a math test on the following skills:
- Divisibility rules
- Equivalent fractions
- Adding and Subtracting Fractions with common denominators.